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CVE-2026-31912: CWE-1285 Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input in The Tcpdump Group libpcap

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-31912cvecve-2026-31912cwe-1285cwe-823cwe-125
Published: 09/05/2026 (09/05/2026, 18:49:41 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: The Tcpdump Group
Product: libpcap

Description

libpcap BPF interpreter detects neither reaching the end of the filter program buffer due to lack of a return instruction nor executing a jump instruction with an offset that translates to a pointer outside of the buffer. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to try reading the OS process memory in the 32GiB around the buffer on 64-bit architectures and in the entire address space on 32-bit architectures.

CVSS v3.1

Score 5.5medium

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
libpcap
pkg:github/libpcap
Affected versions
<1.10.7

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
Tcpdump
Date Reserved
2026-03-10T09:30:50.972Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a9c688aacd9273b49460ebe

Added to database: 09/05/2026, 19:07:54 UTC

Last updated: 09/05/2026, 22:52:31 UTC

Views: 7

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